Advocates say they are alarmed that the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, known as HELP, is weighing whether to move forward on multiple bills that would amend the IDEA.

“Given the current climate and recent actions at the Department of Education that have raised serious concerns regarding enforcement, oversight, and civil rights protections, we believe reopening IDEA poses a substantial risk to students with disabilities and their families,” members of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities’ Education Task Force recently wrote in a letter to leaders of the Senate panel.

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Children with disabilities are far more likely to be subject to restraint or seclusion, suspended, expelled, referred to law enforcement or arrested at school, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent civil rights data collection.

�ճ����, released this month, are based on responses from 17,704 school districts accounting for more than 98,000 schools during the 2021–2022 academic year.

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